NELSON MANDELA AND CHIEF ALBERT LUTHULI EXHIBITION
A collaboration between the Nelson Mandela Museum and Luthuli Museum in Stanger, the Nelson Mandela, and Albert Luthuli in Conversation exhibition celebrates the legacy of these two South African struggle legends and Nobel Prize Laureates. The exhibition comprises more than just a collection of pictures. It is a compilation of personal exchanges between the two leaders, featuring broader conversations on their observations. It also includes their associate’s observations on various issues.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with David Turnley handed over this intriguing exhibition to the Nelson Mandela Museum to form part of its traveling exhibitions around the country. The photographic exhibition was produced by David Turnley an acclaimed photographer who captured South Africa’s struggle between 1985 and 1994. This acclaimed photographic exhibition captures various moments of the struggle in South Africa and his thoughts and reflections such as various portraits of Nelson Mandela and his family, political violence and police reactions; times of a necklace; the delight on a poverty-stricken girl’s face at her father’s antics; the contrast of a privileged, white schoolboy and the two black women passing by him.
PARENTING A NATION TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
Walter and Albertina Sisulu: Parenting a Nation exhibition, a donation from Nelson Mandela Foundation explores the private and political lives of the Sisulu family during the apartheid struggle. The exhibition gives viewers an in-depth understanding of their role in the emancipation of South Africa, as well as of their deep love and abiding affection for one another. Mandela’s summing up of the couple is also highlighted: “One cannot talk about Walter without Albertina – they were an indomitable team,” he said. Theirs was “a unity of such deep friendship and mutual respect, a personal and political partnership that transcended and survived all hardships and persecution”. Walter and Albertina met at the General Hospital in 1941, where the latter was a nurse. Their extraordinary love story traversed 59 years. They married in 1944, with Mandela as their Best Man, and had five children.
‘Dear Mr. Mandela Dear Mrs. Parks EXHIBITION
‘Dear Mr. Mandela… Dear Mrs. Parks’ Children’s letter: Global Lessons exhibition is a collaborative effort between Nelson Mandela Museum and Michigan State University Museum. The exhibition was launched in 2008 by the Nelson Mandela Museum and Michigan State University Museum at the Nelson Mandela Museum Youth and Heritage Centre. The exhibition showcases letters written by hundreds of children around the world to Mrs. Parks and Mr. Mandela illustrating values and goals shared by two leaders born from different continents. It further raises a greater public understanding of the parallels in the struggles for equality and justice in the United States and South Africa through the letters of children.
QUILT EXHIBITION
The quilt exhibition is a result of the Nelson Mandela Museum and the Michigan State University Museum’s long-standing partnership that dates back to the times of Nelson Mandela himself. In tribute to Nelson Mandela and in support and advocacy for the principles to which he was devoted, artists around the world would make quilt items with different designs and meanings. The exhibition specifically features quilts that were made in 2013 and 2014 and were curated by the Michigan State University Museum and Women of Color Quilters Network in association with quilt artists across South Africa. The exhibition was produced in 2014 published in Michigan State University’s catalogue book and launched at the Nelson Mandela Museum on 18 July 2020.
FREEDOM EXHIBITION
Freedom Exhibition is a pictorial exhibition developed out of interviews conducted in Mthatha and Qunu by Film students from the University of Winchester, London who visited South Africa as part of their fieldwork and to celebrate the Nelson Mandela Centennial year with the people of South Africa. The exhibition was produced by Winchester University and curated by Nelson Mandela Museum through its partnership with the university. It was launched on 18 July 2020 at the museum.
MVESO EXHIBITION
The Mandela Photographic Exhibition is an exhibition launched in 2010 to celebrate ten years of Nelson Mandela Museum and the hosting of the 2010 Soccer World Cup celebrations that took place in South Africa. The exhibition looks at Nelson Mandela as a: · Son of the Soil · Champion of Democracy · Mandela a Beacon of Hope · Spirit of Struggle · Father of a Nation · International Statesman
